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In memory of:

Smokeroom Steward Witson Bazil Campbell

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Military service

Age: 37
Rank: Smokeroom Steward
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Lady Hawkins (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (155047)
Birth: Guyana (West Indies)
Death: January 19, 1942

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 21.
Additional information
Son of Jessie Campbell of Georgetown, British Guiana. Husband of Irene Vivian Carter, of Georgetown. Father of a child.

Lady Hawkins was torpedoed on January 19, 1942, at 7:43 a.m. by U-66 and sank east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA, position 35°N/72°30'W.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 107 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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